An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful. Image: Eleanor Lutz tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...

Mappy New Year! 🗺️ Kicking off 2026 with this triple polar vortex animation #Geospatial #GIS #GISChat #DataVisualization #Automation

This is pretty cool. I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work? interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

World's buildings mapped for the first time in high-resolution 3D map

Technical University of Munich researchers have just unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, a new 3D map that captures every building on the planet.

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#30DayMapChallenge | Day 24: Places and Names (Miniature Globes Edition) Today’s submission is a replica of the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. This historical map captures the state of geographical knowledge in 1492, just before new discoveries that would reshape the world.

#30DayMapChallenge: Day 23's theme was "Process", here are several interesting spatial tutorials that came across my feeds ⬇️ 1/ #cartography #GIS #remotesensing #GIStutorials #GISChat

Readability is important #livetv

An excellent compilation of portfolios from cartographers working in the news-media industry ➡️ juanchiparra.github.io/data-folks/ #gischat #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 21: Icon (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's submission is a miniature replica of the giant globe at ESRI headquarters! #handcrafted #mappycraft #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 20: Water (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's submission is a miniature replica of the 2024 Spring Phytoplankton Bloom map created by Chiara Phillips, as seen in Copernicus Marine Services' March 2025 webinar, lnkd.in/gphFw428 #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world (Miniature Globes Edition) For today's theme, Out of this world, I handcrafted a miniature globe of Venus! This mosaic is part of the data collected during the Magellan mission, which mapped 98% of the planet's surface. #mappycraft #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 12: Map From (Miniature Globes Edition) The "Chart Of The World On Mercators Projection" by Hermann Berghaus is a masterful representation of 19th-century cartography, encapsulating the period's technological, cultural, and geographical advancements. #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11: Minimal (Miniature Globes Edition) Today's miniature globe is a 🌎Wanmei Liang x Perrin Remonté collab showing global tidal range. Perrin's map 🔗https://lnkd.in/gtJuk9rS #handcrafted #cartography

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 10: Air (Miniature Globes Edition) Today’s miniature globe shows surface air temperatures from late December 2022. Notice the powerful cold front sweeping across the United States — bringing intense winds and whiteout conditions #mappycraft #handcrafted

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 7: Accessibility (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Accessibility,” I created a miniature globe of the NASA Earth Observatory basemap created by Joshua Stevens. #cartography #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 6: 3D (Miniature Globes Edition) Remember those Pangaea maps from middle school? For today’s “3D” theme, I made a miniature globe showing what the supercontinent looked like millions of years ago. #cartography #mappycraft #handcrafted #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 5: Earth (Miniature Globes Edition) Every day is Earth Day in this “miniature globes” edition of the #30daymapchallenge! Easily, today’s dataset for the theme “Earth” is NASA’s Blue Marble dataset. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 4: My data (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “My Data,” I created a miniature globe based on Adolf Henze’s Erd-Globus atlas, one of the largest printed globes of the 19th century. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycrafts #gischat

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 3: Polygons (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Polygons,” I created a miniature globe depicting the global extent of ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, approximately 18,000 years ago. #cartography #handcrafted #mappycraft #gischat

Dude, these mini's are incredible, especially the fact that they're hand crafted. She literally printed out the gores and everything. #gischat

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#30DayMapChallenge | Day 2: Lines (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Lines,” I created a miniature globe of NASA SVS’ Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature visualization. Look closely to see the mesmerizing ocean eddies!

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 2: Lines (Miniature Globes Edition) For today’s theme, “Lines,” I created a miniature globe of NASA SVS’ Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature visualization. Look closely to see the mesmerizing ocean eddies!

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 1: Points (Miniature Globes Edition) Happy first day of the #30DayMapChallenge! For today’s theme, “Points,” I created a miniature globe using NASA’s Black Marble dataset, which captures the glow of artificial light across Earth at night. #gis #cartography #gischat

This satellite image highlights the confluence of three of Guyana’s major rivers—the Cuyuni, the Mazaruni, and the Essequibo. Darker waters likely contained less suspended sediment. Light brown waters likely contained enormous amounts of fine-grained sediment🧪

Reshaping the Forests Around Kisangani: This map details where forest losses have occurred around Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 2001 and 2024, older losses in purple and pink and more recent losses in orange and yellow 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this downward-looking photo of part of Mozambique’s northern coast in southeastern Africa. The light-toned Rio Lúrio snakes across the top half of the scene. Its delta empties into Baía do Lúrio, which opens into the Mozambique Channel.🧪

Cooper Creek Replenishes Lake Eyre: Floodwaters in Cooper Creek began filling Lake Eyre in late July. These false-color images show the shift in contributing tributaries and the changes in the lake’s extent.

Australia’s Howick River: Winding across the Jeannie catchment in northern Queensland, the river sustains diverse ecosystems on its way to the Coral Sea.🧪

Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh: A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance. 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the glow of city lights, the aurora, and a rising Moon illuminate the night along the northwest coast of North America 🧪

Dark Skies Over the Great Basin: Far from large urban areas, Great Basin National Park offers unencumbered views of the night sky and opportunities to study distant stars and exoplanets. 🧪

Browns Canyon National Monument: The remote and rugged landscape in central Colorado is known for outdoor recreation by day and exceptional stargazing by night. 🧪